Anticipate and mitigate vulnerabilities of Tunisian coastal cities facing climate change and disaster risk
May 9 and 10 in Tunis
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To achieve the third objective, 3 national workshops were organized at the end of the 1st phase in Alexandria, Tunis and Casablanca, in order to present the vulnerability...

Municipal Cooperation for Local Participatory Governance in the Maghreb Region
Lead Organization
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH).
Partners
Tunisian Ministry of the Interior; General Directorate for Local Government (DGCPL, Tunisia); General Directorate for Local Government (DGCL, Morocco); Center for Training...

Joint Work Program: a multi-level approach to foster dialogue on cities and urban development

To better respond to their citizens’ needs, the Mediterranean cities need to be efficiently managed, economically competitive and financially viable to be livable and accountable. The Arab spring has raised critical needs and challenges regarding participatory processes and decentralization, and citizens are demanding to be fully involved in the...

The JWP was presented back to back the UCLG conference on decentralization in Tunis, May 29-30, 2012, to shed light on this unique collaboration in the Mediterranean region. It was the opportunity to discuss the potential and challenges of decentralization as well as hear voices of Tunisian local governments, national institutions, and civil...

Lead Organizations
The World Bank, Plan Bleu, CMI, GIZ.
Partners
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), Municipalities of Beirut, Rabat and Tunis, Ministries of Environment of Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia, The World Bank, French Development Agency, European...

Lead Organization
The World Bank.
Partners
Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC), MedCities.
Challenges
Limited municipal capacities and competences to implement the city development strategy (CDS) and liaise with civil society to create inclusive solutions.
Limited coordination between policy making at national level and the CDS at local...

Lead Organizations
The World Bank, League of Arab States.
Partners
National Youth Observatory (Tunisia), Italian Youth Forum, Spanish Youth Forum, European Youth Forum, École de la Deuxième Chance, Marseille.
Challenges
Limited opportunities of integrative participation for Young people despite their strong involvement in the transition...

This blog is part of a weekly series that we hope will provide some food for thought on the critical questions outlined in the forthcoming MENA Flagship Report on Jobs.
High unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) largely reflects the growth deficit. While China has been growing at 10 percent for a decade and has unemployment...

Is Being Employable Enough to Get a Job in the Arab World? The Double Transition From Education to Work in MENA

This blog is co-authored by Juan Manuel Moreno and Stefanie Brodmann
This blog is part of a weekly series that we hope will provide some food for thought on the critical questions outlined in the forthcoming MENA Flagship Report on Jobs.
The low quality and relevance of education and training systems in MENA have led them to be perceived –...

I-Gov has taken a leap. During May 2012, Tunisian citizens from around the country weighed in on how well they are being served by the public sector. And the government is listening. Under a new social accountability policy supported by the Tunisia Governance and Opportunity Development Policy Loan (DPL) in 2011, the office of the Prime...

Governance and Public Sector employment in the Middle East and North Africa

This blog has been co-authored by Lida Bteddini and Guenter Heidenhof
This blog is part of a weekly series that we hope will provide some food for thought on the critical questions outlined in the forthcoming MENA Flagship Report on Jobs.
Recent events across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have underscored the urgent need to...

This blog is part of a weekly series that we hope will provide some food for thought on the critical questions outlined in the forthcoming MENA Flagship Report on Jobs.
Several years ago, when I first came into the region, my department produced a Private Sector Flagship report titled, “From Privilege to Competition: Unlocking Private-Led...

The main challenge in the MENA region today is to create more, better paid, decent, and higher quality jobs. A key way for MENA countries to meet this challenge is to invest more in knowledge and innovation related areas and to develop competitive, high productivity, and sustainable economic activities—that is, to make a move to a knowledge...

This workshop, jointly organized by the CMI, the EIB and the World Bank Institute took place in Villa Valmer, Marseille.
The objective of the workshop was to respond to the concerns of science park and incubator managers from the Mediterranean partner countries (MPCs) in order better to identify and assess the services required by the innovating...

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The Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) is a multi-partner platform where development agencies, Governments, local authorities and civil society from around the Mediterranean convene in order to exchange knowledge, discuss public policies, and identify the solutions needed to address key challenges facing the Mediterranean region.